Clasp for suspenders



(No Model.)

0. R. HARRIS. CLASP FOR SUSPENDERS.

110.448.5519. 1 r Patented Mar. 17,1891.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFF CE.

CHARLES R. HARRIS, OF VILLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA.

CLASP FOR SUSPENDERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 448,519, dated March 17, 1891.

Application filed September 23,1890. Serial No, 365,882. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES R. HARRIS, of lVilliamsport, in the county of Lycoming and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clasps for Suspenders and Similar Articles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvementin clasps for suspenders and similar articles, the object being to provide a neat and substantialfastening for securing the meeting straps of a suspender together and connecting other parts of the suspender thereto; and with this end in view my invention consists in an.X or double-V shaped blank adapted to be folded in the middle to form a loop to receive a ring or other device for the attachment of other parts of the suspender and belapped together over aweb and provided with teeth on the inner edges to penetrate the web, and having flanges which fold over and hold the two V- shaped members together upon the web 5 and it further consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

In theaccompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a View of the blank. Fig. 2 is a View of the clasp in condition for application to the straps or web, and Fig. 3 is a view showing the same applied to the straps to form a completed suspender.

A represents an approximately X or double- Vshaped blank comprising two members a and b. Each of these members has inwardlyprojecting teeth a c on its inner edges, and

the branches of member 1) are preferably slightly narrower than the branches of the other member in order to receive them and have the teeth of member I) pass outside of and adjacent to those of member a, and on the outer edges of member a flanges e e are provided, and they are adapted to fold over and tightly embrace the branches of member I) for the purpose of holding the two members securely together on the straps or' web. At the fold a bearing is formed for the ring or 100p B, and the latter is embraced at this point, so that it is impossible to remove it.

It is evident that slight changes might be resorted to in the form and arrangement of the several parts described without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention, and hence I do not wish to limit myself to the exact construction herein set forth; but,

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is

A clasp constructed of sheet metal and comprising two integral approximately V-shaped members joined at their apices, each member being provided with teeth on its inner edges, the teeth of one member adapted to come slightly behind the teeth of the other member, one of said members being wider than the other and adapted when the parts are in position to lap over the outer face of the narrower member, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES R. HARRIS.

'Witnesses:

-lrEO. F. D WNING, V. E. Honens. 

